Loggers in Oregon discovered the wreckage of a World War II-era, U.S. Navy aircraft last week. Investigators do not know yet if human remains are at the site. One such plane was reported missing in 1945 with two crew members. A technique developed to generate 3-D imagery for computer games is helping archaeologists to get […]

Mitochondrial DNA from a tiny finger bone uncovered in a Siberian cave has shown it to be distinct from that of Neanderthals and modern humans. “The human family tree has got a lot of branching. It’s entirely plausible there are a lot of branches out there we don’t know about,” commented Ian Tattersall of the […]